Microsoft remote delete programs

[morganism]

interesting.
If you have Microsoft Secrutity Essentials on your machine, you have remote access enabled

http://www.dailydot.com/technology/tor- ... re-remove/

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive ... azard.aspx

[Thrawn]

That's actually true of any anti-virus vendor with an automatically-updating database. I doubt that Microsoft actually had remote access in the sense of being able to log in to your machine, but they were able to provide an update telling MSE to destroy their target. And that *is* actually what antivirus database updates are supposed to do, in the general sense.